Indian workers are paid to film haircuts and cooking as robotics training data
Olivier__OG · x · 2026-10-26
Per BBC, workers across India are being paid to wear cameras while cutting hair, stitching garments and cooking, capturing first-person footage robotics companies can use to teach machines real-world manipulation.
This reveals a new layer of the AI economy: human physical expertise itself is becoming training data. The author suggests physical-operations businesses ask which workforce skills could become data next — and who captures the value.
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